Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

Donation link at www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

Nice application of Thich Nhat Hanh's words on Interbeing 🪷 🌧️🍎 to bring a little hope, from @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social theconversation.com/meditating-o...

Public worry about Palestine Action ban’s impact on UK democracy, new survey finds Evidence that the ban affects: - willingness to protest - trust in government - perception of divisions in UK More here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... Full report: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

The main issue facing any UK government isn't actually the number of people seeking asylum, in the grand scheme, proportionally, we aren't talking about huge figures, especially when compared per capita to countries such as France, but the constant images we see in the media. 1/

When a week feels like years, Take a mindful breath. Feel the earth under your feet. Be where you are. As you breathe in, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing in. As you breathe out, say to yourself, I know that I am breathing out. Repeat as needed. And it will be needed repeatedly.

Long ago, a stone felt a tingle on its skin. Moss. A new feeling. A green feeling. The granite spoke of ages in the heat of deep Earth. The moss sang the taste of sunlight and the softness of salamander bellies. They named one another. And told those names to no one at all.

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver

Israel's massacre of Palestinian journalists has been unconscionable. And the silence of western journalists has been an utter abomination to our profession. And to humanity. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

RELEASED We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged. Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours. www.wedonotcomply.org

As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street. This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history. No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.

The obliteration of Gaza. Photo by @alessiomamo.bsky.social

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

"When I came out as trans at 17, my school counsellor was one of the first people I ever told. Her unquestioning support meant everything to me... That was the first time I truly felt accepted by someone..." @uglastefania.bsky.social not only do we still lack conversion therapy ban we have a new s28

This seems to be a good route for sending help to Gaza. I've just donated. Please share widely chuffed.org/project/help...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

The contrast could not be more stark.

In Vietnam, there are myriad little lakes formed from bomb craters—in which lotus flowers grow. That image sticks with me. The Zen master and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh taught, no mud, no lotus. Without the mud, the flower cannot grow. What will we grow from the mud we are collectively in?

Ireland has had "sELf iD" for 10 years now and not one single issue that the media, government and anti-trans movement predicted has come to pass. Not one. If it works in Ireland why would it not work here? No one who opposes it can give a good answer, because the real answer is transphobia

“I tell my students, when you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” — Toni Morrison, interview 2003

I started a blog where I will be nerding out about Merleau-Ponty and gestalt stuff. I’ve got a couple of posts up. You can even subscribe if you want.

These sections from the final version of my puberty blocker ban paper. They clearly show CT in the “new” GIDS…

So the Hero has decreed through his mouthpieces the Lawgivers, first, that the proper shape of the narrative is that of the arrow or spear, starting here and going straight there and THOK! hitting its mark (which drops dead); second, that the central concern of narrative... is conflict...

“It is culture that sets the limits on the self-stories we can imagine, construct, and live – and culture that continues to color and inform those stories, even at times and places where we were sure we had violated or transcended those limits...

Israel keeps firing on starving people looking for food. We keep supporting them militarily and diplomatically but Palestine Action are the terrorists. And I could face 14 years in the gaol for posting this message.

[Gestalt therapy] does not require therapists to show themselves as better at living... but that we are experienced in holding contact even when anxious, and are able to use the supports around us...to be able to hold the relationship with ethics and commitment wherever it leads.- Peter Philippson

We know ourselves as a story, and out of that self-story can come certain next chapters, and not others. That self-story then forms the opening... which supports us to go on developing that narrative (or perhaps endlessly repeating it) in certain directions, but not others. - Gordon Wheeler

The need organizes the field - Lewin In a certain field, a certain experience will emerge rather than another - Francesetti #gestalt

"Deviation leaves it's own marks on the ground, which can help generate alternative lines, which cross the ground in unexpected ways." Sara Ahmed, Orientations...

Ahmed suggests "...queer lives are about the potentiality of not following certain conventional scripts of family, inheritance, and child rearing, whereby “not following” involves disorientation; it makes things oblique, which in turn opens up another way to inhabit those forms."

The body acts on what is within reach, which extends the reach of this body yet keeps other objects out of reach. - Ahmed in 'Orientations: Towards a Queer Phenomenology'

Dissertation mode. So expect/excuse/enjoy some random quotes over the coming months! #gestalt #therapistsconnect #therapistsky

Wooooo this one touched a nerve. Surprised to find myself in tears at my desk... brought a bit of attention to how these little signs of safety land with me too... simple things... Thanks for sharing @hleehurley.com

@ukagp-social.bsky.social I've added you to go.bsky.app/Nib3hyK - if anyone else wants to be added send me a message

Please support Gazans to keep their accounts on here.

A friend is trying to support a neighbour going through a mental health crisis with elements of psychosis - struck by how little support is out there for communities to support each other. Anyone know of useful resources: either information on how to support or London based orgs? #therapistsconnect

If interested in the intersection btwn #psychology & #law, there are starter packs with people working in the area. This pack has grown over time, so if you saw it last year it's fuller now (e.g., now has Am Psych-Law Soc'y bsky.app/profile/ap-l...! (lmk if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/KS4zG4s

Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up. I’ll add more as I find them. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

BREAKING: At 00:23 Maltese time, a #FreedomFlotilla ship was subjected to a drone attack. The front of the vessel was targeted twice, resulting in a fire and a breach in the hull. The ship is currently located in international waters near #Malta. An #SOS distress signal was sent.

From barrister @crash-w.bsky.social. Powerful critique of the Supreme Court's work... ‘The Court’s comments about single-sex spaces appear to place trans people in a worse position than they were even prior to the passage of the Gender Recognition Act 2004’. www.translegalproject.org/post/for-wom...

Gender injustice is pervasive. It can be overwhelming to keep track of all the attacks on bodily autonomy and knowing how to resist. Amnesty UK have created a free online course exploring intersecting fights for gender justice with tools for action. Check it out. www.futurelearn.com/courses/gend...

Whilst the news focuses on 87 pages by sour hearted people who think they can judge Trans folk out of existence, there is also this... Massive beautiful crowds in Central London showing Trans people are loved and valued and that they will always be here as they always have. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🩵🤍🩷

This thread by @heatherpaterson.co.uk is being filtered so copy/pasting here: There are protests taking place across the country in the coming days and weeks in response to yesterday's Supreme Court ruling Drop me a message with any I'm missing and I will add details of each to the thread below:

We are devastated and enraged by yesterday's supreme court ruling which ruled that trans women are not included in the definition of women in the Equality Act.

So much to be revolted by in the @supremecourt.uk judgment today. Started this post with one thing in mind but it's not possible to single one thing out. There is just so much there. As a queer person disgusted by the way sexual orientation is instrumentalised. As a lawyer...

If you are trans, live in England, and think you might want to change your gender marker on the NHS, contact your GP to sort it **asap**. The UK government is cracking down on trans people and we have seen exactly how this plays out in the US. The form for your GP is here:

Today, mothers and fathers in Gaza are mourning their children because governments across the world did not deem their lives worthy of protection.